Improvement in cork-screws



Patented 0ct. 13,1874.

UNI ED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM P. X. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF AND ALONZO B. SIMONDS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORK-SCREWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,895, dated October 13, 1874 application filed April 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. X. SMITH, of New York city, in the State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Cork- Screws and their attachments, of which the following is a specification:

The device is intended to serve not only as a cork-screw and means of operating the same, with provisions for closing into a narrow space suitably protected for carriage in the pocket, but also as a key-ring, screw-driver, and door fastener. It may be made efficient for all these purposes with little size or weight.

The following is a description of the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of the same.

Figure 1 is a side view in its closed condition, adapted for carriage in the pocket. Keys may be applied in any number required. Fig. 2 represents the device adjusted for use as a cork-screw. Fig. 3 represents it in condition for use as a screw-driver. Figs. 4 and 5 show it in use as a door-fastener.

The figures are horizontal sections through a door and the adjacent casin g.

In Fig. 4c the joint between the door and casing is thin, and the door-fastenin g hook is alone introduced therein.

In Fig. 5 the joint is more open, and the screw-driving blade is applied to contribute its thickness to that of the shank of the doorfastening hook.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

A holder, formed of a peculiarly-bent wire of tempered steel or other suitable material, is indicated by A. Certain portions will be designated by additional marks, as A when necessary. This wire forms the handle for my cork-screw, and the guard for protecting it when carried in the pocket. It also forms the attaching means for the other parts. B is the main body of the cork-screw. It is attached to the holder A by passing the latter through the hole I). It has a lateral projection, B, formed as represented. The length of the cork-screw B must be carefully adapted to the dimensions of the other parts. C is, my

screw-drivin g blade attached to the holder A by passing the latter through the hole 0. It also receives an end of the wire in a hole. 0, This blade 0 is formed with a lateral arm,'G and with short side flanges G D is the doorfastening hook.- It is attached to the holder A by passing the latter through the hole (1. Its lateral projection D is sharpened and adapted to enter the side casing in serving as a door-fastener. It is also perforated at d to receive the point of the corkscrew B.

The several parts of the holderA are designated as follows: Its general outline approximates a rectangle with rounded corners. Its main body is marked simply A. One end is bent inward, as indicated by A. Another corner of the rectangle has a corresponding inward bend at the point A but it is prolonged inward farther, and then bent nearly in line toward the other end, and extended straight until opposite thereto. This straight portion, marked A performs the important function of holding the blades of the screwdriver and door-fastener firmly in position when the device is closed.

To prepare the device for use, the corkscrew B is thrown into the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. This liberates the point of the cork-screw, and allows it to be turned into the position shown in Fig. 2.

Thus conditioned, the holderA and its atener it is necessary to press strongly inward 011 the outer face of the screw-driver blade 0, thus detaching it and its companion D from the turned-in end A of the holder or wire A.

Thus conditioned, the parts may be loosened out of their closed position, and adjusted for use separately.

In Fig. 3t'he parts B and D are idle, and

when the door is shrunken, so as to make a very open joint. This use is shown in Fig. 5.

In the folded condition, the side flanges O on the screw-driver blade 0 serve to hold the door-fastener hook in position. The door-fastener blade in its turn holds in position the point of the cork-screw. The lateral arms B on the cork-screw and G on the screw-driver match together, and contribute to the firmness of the mutual support.

It is important that the several holes I) d d be of just sufficient length to perform as shown, and that the Wire or material for the holder A be of a proper strength and elasticity.

I claim as my in.vention- I 1. The holder A A A A constructed as described, with the end A adapted to yield presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W. P. X. SMITH. Witnesses:

WILLIAM G. DEY, ARNOLD HoRMANN. 

